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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: relearning C: why does an in-place change to a char* segfault?
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2024 06:33:22 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sat, 03 Aug 2024 19:58:37 -0700, Keith Thompson wrote:

> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
>
>> On Sat, 03 Aug 2024 17:07:37 -0700, Keith Thompson wrote:
>>
>>> ... general compression isn't something I've seen ...
>>
>> I recall Apple had a patent on some aspects of the “PEF” executable
>> format that they created for their PowerPC machines running old MacOS.
>> This had to do with some clever instruction encodings for loading stuff
>> into memory.
> 
> Is that relevant to what I asked about?

“Compression”